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• 14-Dec-2023

  
  Freaky Geek Ball The Freaky Geek Ball was an event — a Halloween Dance Party — put on by various defunct San Diego tech groups in October of 2000. I was running the WebSanDiego listserv at the time and played a big part. It of course had a domain, and a website. Here in 2023 I have started...

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• 13-Jan-2022

  
  Sparklines in Excel courtesy seminar by Jordan Goldmeier I attended Jordan Goldmeier’s (advancedxl.com) seminar on data visualization in Excel via one of Creative Morning‘s Field Trips. It is far easier to do cool stuff in Excel than I remember. Behold a sparkline bar graph of my ArtLung blog post counts by month since 2001.

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• 10-Jan-2022

  
  Finding earworms in last.fm data with PHP Over the weekend I was prompted to think about the idea of an “earworm” — a song or piece of music that gets stuck in your mind. Some people find such “earworms” to be highly irritating. The idiom implies an actual worm in your actual ear which sounds positively *horrifying* to me. For me, an...

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